He may be rewarded by certain unexpected gleams of insight, as if the face of the sledge-hammer were worn bright by hard service and flashed in the sunlight.

Mr.Roosevelt sees as far ahead and as much as he needs to see.

He has an almost infallible sense of where to strike the next important blow, and even during the ponderous labors of the day he prudently and confidently lays out the task of to-morrow.

Thus while he has contributed to the liberation of American intelligence chiefly in the sense that he has given his fellow-countrymen something to think about, he is very far from being a blind, narrow, or unenlightened leader.
Doubtless the only practical road of advance at present is laborious, slow, and not too enlightened.

For the time being the hammer is a mightier weapon than the sword or the pen.